Hi Linda, though it may be a bit difficult for you to get used to at first voice over and the mac do things a bit differently than the windows screen readers, so you will find that things do not work exactly the same. For example, on the web, you move item by item rather than line by line. Things are still read in proper order, and links and controls are still separated the way you're used to, but it moves by item rather than line. A table is similar to a list view in that you can move through the messages, and you can interact with the table and read down the list without hearing every column As I move through my messages, I usually just read the subject line. While there are some similarities between the mac and windows, there are some definite differences, and expecting everything to work the way you are used to will cause problems. On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Linda Adams wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I am Linda Adams, a very new and inexperienced user of an > Apple Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been a Windoes user for ten years, and now > I am experimenting to see if the Apple Snow Leopard will be comfortably > accessible. > > My computer technician friend has been worried for a while about the > increasing security problems with Windows computers and is wanting me to > switch to Apple. I would be very interested to hear from former Windows users > regarding what benefits they experience with Apple versus the Windows PC > computer. > On a more specific note, is there anything that I can set in System > Preferences or VoiceOver Utility to get rid of the table view in Mail and > switch it > to a list view so that there aren't as many navigation steps to go through to > read messages? > Are there settings that I can do to allow me to read a website line by line > from the top of the page to the bottom in Safari? I like to go to catalog > websites > such as LL Bean or The Vermont Country Store where there are plain text > descriptions of every product below that product link. I want to see the web > pages > as they really are rather than just being shown links, headers, or other such > element groups. > My hands are quite small. Is it possible to change settings so that not as > many keys need to be pressed at a time to perform functions? I know about > Quick Nav and locking the VoiceOver keys, but the VoiceOver keys often need > to be unlocked to perform other commands. > Thank you for any advice and help that you can give me. I have three friends > counting on me to tell them whether Apple would be good to switch to or not. > > Linda Adams > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
